gold inlay
Precious metal decoration
Gold inlay is decorative gold set into grooves or cavities cut in another material—wood, metal, stone, or enamel.
The technique appears in fine furniture, jewelry, and dental work, where gold fills a prepared cavity in a tooth.
The term covers both the process and the resulting ornamentation: The box featured intricate gold inlay on its lid.
- ringClosed curve shape
- filigreeDelicate twisted-wire ornamentation
- diademJeweled band of royalty
- broochDecorative fastening ornament
- engravingCarving into hard surfaces
decorative arts · marquetry · antique furniture · wood veneer · prosthodontics · kintsugi · bridgework · cloisonné · pendant · Mughal · Toledo · crown · precious metal · embedded · fine jewelry · dental crown · tooth · lustrous
- inlaymarquetry, intarsia, parquetry, veneer, pique
- Islamic metalworkbrass bowls, brassware, copper vessels, ewers, incense burners
- gun ornamentationscrollwork, checkering, filigree, embossing, relief carving
- blade materialssteel, carbon steel, high carbon steel, stainless steel, tempered steel
- Chinese bronzesding, bronze bells, tripods, cauldrons, bronze casting
- swordssword, sabres, longsword, rapier, saber
metalwork technique
gold inlaygold plating
Thin precious metal coating
gilding · gold leaf · electroplating · gold foil · raised relief